HP Dev One - A Great, Well Engineered AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop

For getting an idea of the performance potential out of the HP Dev One, I ran benchmarks of it against various other modern laptops I had locally for comparison. All of these laptops were freshly (re)benchmarked for this review and using Pop!_OS 22.04 given that the HP Dev One is using Pop!_OS 22.04 by default.

The laptops up for comparison included the:

- Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 5 4500U (Zen 2)
- Lenovo IdeaPad with Ryzen 7 4700U (Zen 2)
- TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen2 with Ryzen 5 5500U (Zen 2)
- HP Dev One with Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U (Zen 3)
- ASUS G513QY (ROG Zephyrus AMD Advantage) with Ryzen 9 5900HX (Zen 3)
- Dell XPS 13 7390 with Core i7 1065G7 (Ice Lake)
- Dell XPS 13 9310 with Core i7 1185G7 (Tiger Lake)

Again, the selection was limited by the hardware I had available for testing. All of the laptops had 16GB of system memory and NVMe SSD storage. All of the laptop details on the table below from their fresh installs of Pop!_OS 22.04.

Dozens of different benchmarks were carried out looking at many different areas of the HP Dev One performance with an emphasis on developer-minded workloads but also plenty of other common Linux laptop usage scenarios. All of the laptops were benchmarked while on AC power and in their default configuration / OS defaults. During the benchmarks the CPU/SoC power consumption was monitored along with the CPU temperature. Performance per Watt graphs are also available based on the CPU/SoC power figures due to the overall system power consumption comparison being difficult to gauge accurately due to the varying displays and other system differences.